José Antonio Sosa

José Antonio Sosa Diaz-Saavedra (born 8 May 1957, Las Palmas) is a Spanish architect, university professor and researcher. He is a member of the Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts of St. Michael Archángel.
Early life and education
José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra was brought up in a family with an interest in art and history, especially in relation to the Canary Islands. As a result, he was encouraged to study architecture, graduating from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1981. In 1994, he earned a Ph.D. at the School of Architecture, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Teaching
After completing his doctoral studies, he obtained the chair of Architectural Projects in the Department of Graphic Expression and Architectural Projects of the EALPGC, School of Architecture of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where he has been since 1983.
In the year 2000 he was visiting scholar and taught in the Department of Architecture, belonging to the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, he has also participated as a jury in several universities among which is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH (Studio Basel).
In 2015 he joined the University Institute of Intelligent Systems and Numerical Applications in Engineering of the ULPGC, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Main architecture contributions
José Antonio Sosa has been the main proponent of modern architectural development in the early twentieth century in the Canary Islands and Spain, promoting its place in the history of urban and cultural heritage. As a result, he was appointed a member of the Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts of St. Michael Archángel.
In 1996 Professor Sosa joined his studio with that of , creating the Nred Arquitectos Group, which has since worked on such projects as the City of Justice (New Law Courts Headquarters) and the rehabilitation of the Town Halls (Town Hall Houses) of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Since 2011, he has founded a new studio for architecture and urban planning together with Evelyn Alonso Rohner.
In 2015 José Antonio Sosa is the managing editor of the Arquiatesis editorial line for the publication and publication of theses and research works in architecture.
Individual and Collective exhibitions
Sosa, has participated in the following exhibitions:
1997 "Hard & Soft" Eight Floor Gallery, (New York), USA
2003 "One is always Two", Professional Architects Association (Tenerife), Spain
2003 "Spaces for intimacy" Hall los Aljibes (Lanzarote), Spain
2004 "DakÁrt Biennial" (Dakar), Senegal
2005 "Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial", Brazil.
2005 "Architecture for Justice" COAC. (Madrid), Spain
2007 "Individual exhibition": Nred Architects, Literary Cabinet. (Las Palmas), Spain
2007 "Regeneration Strategy", Nacional Library. (Pekín), China
2007 "Refabricating City "Shenzhen & Hong Kong, Biennial of Urban Planning and Architecture. (Hong Kong), China
2007 "Xisi Bei street". (Beijing), China
2008 "Gallery AEDES". (Berlin), Germany
2008" Sustainable Building. (Melbourne), Australia
2007–2009 "Biennial of Art, Architecture and landscape of Canarias". (Las Palmas), Spain
2009 "Object Art" Manuel Ojeda Gallery. (Las Palmas), Spain
2010–2011 "A city called Spain". (Athens-Moscow), Greece-Russia
2015–2016 Exhibition at the MAXXI (Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo in Rome), Italy.
2017 "In process". Exhibition of architectural models by Alonso-Sosa in the Saro León Gallery. (Las Palmas), Spain.
Acknowledgments
Academy Member
Admission of José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra into the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Canarias of San Miguel Arcangel (Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts of St. Michael Archángel.), 2014.
Awards
Professor Sosa has been awarded in the following competitions:
2006 First prize, The Venegas Public Square and Underground Car Park
2005 First prize, Puerto del Rosario Waterfront
2005 First prize, La Regenta Art Center
2004 First prize, the City of Justice (New Law Courts Headquarter) in Las Palmas.
2002 First prize, The Rehabilitation (building restoration) of the Town Hall Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
1997 First prize, The Rehabilitation (building restoration) of the Literary Cabinet "Design and Ideas"
2008 Third prize,The Madrid. Slaughterhouse
2008 First prize, Rehabilitation, Consistorial Houses of the Palmas de Gran Canaria (Melbourne Sustainable Building)
2008 First Accésit, For Architectural Renovation (building restoration) of the Old Tabakalera in Donostia-San Sebastián
2012 First prize, Railway Station of Playa del Inglés
2013 Second prize, Station-20, Sophia, Bulgaria
2016 First prize, A House in a Garden, Gran Canaria
Buildings
Some of them are:
2003 Loyola`s Foundation Administrative building, Spain
2003 The Elongated House. (Gran Canaria), Spain (In collaboration with Miguel Santiago),
2004 The Hidden House. (Gran Canaria), Spain
2008 Rehabilitación (building restoration) Town Hall of (Las Palmas), Spain (In collaboration with Magüi González)
2010 Black Pavilion. (Las Palmas), Spain
2010 Art Center, La Regenta. (Las Palmas), Spain
2011 The Z House. (Gran Canaria), Spain
2011 Station-20. (Sophia), Bulgaria
2012 Railway Station of Playa del Inglés. (Las Palmas), Spain
2012 The City of Justice,"New Law Courts Headquarter". (Las Palmas), Spain. (Jointly with Magüi González y Miguel Santiago)
2012 Central Library of Helsinki, Finland (Jointly with Evelyn Alonso Rohner)
2014 Philologicum of Munich, Germany (Jointly with Evelyn Alonso Rohner)
2014 The Loft Apartment, emblematic house intervention and renewal. (Las Palmas), Spain (Jointly with Evelyn Alonso Rohner).
2014 Total building rehabilitation Buganvilla Apartments. (Gran Canaria), Spain. (Jointly with Evelyn Alonso Rohner).
2015–16 Industrial building renewal, Group Volkswagen franchisee “Majuelos” La Laguna, Tenerife , Spain. (Jointly with Evelyn Alonso Rohner)
2016–17 Rehabilitation of the Industrial and Commercial Building “La Loza” (Las Palmas), Spain. (Jointly with Evelyn Alonso Rohner).
Publications
Books
Sosa has published the following texts:
En Proceso, José Antonio Sosa, Evelyn Alonso, David Alemán, Vidania Báez, Álvaro del Amo, Carlos Marrero, 2017
Confluences. José Antonio Sosa, Magūi González, Miguel Santiago, Evelyn Alonso, Author: Ana Maria Torres, Publisher: Cinisello Balsamo, Milano Silvana,2015,
Paisajes de Encuentro. José Antonio Sosa,2007
Redes. José Antonio Sosa,2007
Corralejo. José Antonio Sosa,2007
Nred Arquitectos, Compilación. José Antonio Sosa, Maria L. Gonzalez, Graham Thomson,Clara Jiménez, Publisher: Literary Cabinet of Las Palmas, 2006
Cultivo. José Antonio Sosa, Eva Alfonso, Hector Sanchez 2005
Hibridaciones. José Antonio Sosa, Eva Alfonso, Hector Sanchez 2005
Aprendiendo del Territorio. José Antonio Sosa, Pedro Nicolas Romera, 2004
Arquitectura Moderna y Turismo: 1925–1965: Proceedings IV Congreso DOCOMOMO Iberian Foundation, José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra, Carmen Jordá Such, Nuno Portas, DOCOMOMO Iberian Foundation of Valencia, 2003
La Casa del Marino, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1958–1964: José Antonio Sosa, Miguel Martín-Fernández, Colegio de Arquitectos de Almería, 2002.
Contextualismo y Abstracción. Interrelaciones entre suelo, paisaje y arquitectura,1994
Articles
Among them are:
Introspecciones Elocuentes. José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra Annals of the Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts of San Miguel Arcángel..: RACBA, ISSN 2174-1484, Nº. 8, 2015, págs. 165-168
Naturalezas Abstractas. José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra, Annals of the Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts of San Miguel Arcángel.: RACBA, ISSN 2174-1484, Nº. 7, 2014, págs. 143-152
Armazones. José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra, Transfer, ISSN 1695-1778, Nº. 5, 2003, pág. 107
Condiciones de Contorno. Official Magazine, Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM), ISSN 0004-2706, Nº. 345, 2006, págs.
Espacios sin Sombra. José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra, Official Magazine, Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM), ISSN 0004-2706, Nº. 330, 2003, págs. 48-5
Una Nube en una Jaula, (La Maison Suspendu). José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra y, Paul Nelson Official Magazine, Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM), ISSN 0004-2706, Nº. 328, 2002, págs. 20-27
Capó y Envolventes. José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra y Magüi González, Basa, ISSN 0213-0653, Nº. 24, 2001, págs. 138-145
Coello de Portugal en Canarias. José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra, Basa, ISSN 0213-0653, Nº. 22, 2000, págs. 20-41
Constructores de Ambientes. del mat-building a la lava programática, José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra Quaderns 220, 1998
Vacío: deriva y captura. José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra y Magüi González, Basa, ISSN 0213-0653, Nº. 19, 1996, págs. 68-71
El Cabildo Racionalista de Gran Canaria "Alejandro de la Sota" y el proyecto para su ampliación. José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra, Magui González, Official Magazine, Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM), ISSN 0004-2706, Nº. 300, 1994, págs. 42-48
El Paisaje como Premisa de Proyecto en el Movimiento Moderno. José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra, Félix J. Bordes Caballero), Basa, ISSN 0213-0653, Nº. 16, 1994, págs. 98-103
Doce Apartamentos en Playa del Inglés. Playa del Inglés "Gran Canaria", José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra y Francisco Campos, Basa, ISSN 0213-0653, Nº. 10, 1989, págs. 98-101
Ideas y Obras. José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra, Basa, ISSN 0213-0653, Nº. 2, 1984 (Book dedicated to: Eduardo Westerdahl), págs. 33-36
References
External links
SIANI
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
El Catedrático José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra, numerario de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes
Alonso & Sosa Architects
1957 births
Living people
People from Las Palmas
Spanish architects
Modernist architects
Spanish urban planners
Urban designers
Landscape architecture
Technical University of Madrid alumni
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria alumni